Public–private sector wage gap in a group of European countries: an empirical perspective
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DOI: 10.1007/s00181-020-01841-3
Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of the great recession of 2007–2009 and the debt crisis on the evolution of wages in the public and the private sectors, and the changes in the public–private sector pay… read more here.
Keywords: gap; european countries; gap group; public private ... See more keywords
What Same-Sex Adoption Laws Can Tell Us About the Gender Wage Gap in the United States
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DOI: 10.1007/s10834-022-09835-2
Abstract: Gender wage gaps are frequently explained as resulting from direct discrimination, employers’ preferences over personality traits, and differing labor force attachment. We rely on a natural quasi-experiment using exogenous changes in state-level, same-sex adoption laws… read more here.
Keywords: adoption; wage; wage gap; gender wage ... See more keywords
Millennials and the Gender Wage Gap in the U.S.: A Cross-Cohort Comparison of Young Workers Born in the 1960s and the 1980s
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DOI: 10.1007/s11293-017-9546-6
Abstract: Using two cohorts of young workers born in the early 1960s and early 1980s, this paper analyzes the temporal change in the U.S. gender wage gap and its determinants, which persists for both explained and… read more here.
Keywords: gap; workers born; wage; young workers ... See more keywords
Parenthood Penalty and Gender Wage Gap: Recent Evidence from Thailand
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DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2021.101435
Abstract: This study first examines the evolution of gender wage gap in Thailand, using cross-sectional data from the Labor Force Survey (LFS) for 1985-2017. We find that education, occupation, and industry significantly contribute to gender wage… read more here.
Keywords: thailand; wage; wage gap; gender wage ... See more keywords
Impact of minimum wage increase on gender wage gap: Case of Poland
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2017.10.021
Abstract: This paper aims at assessing the effect of significant increase in the minimum wage observed in Poland in 2008–2009 on gender wage gap. To check the potentially differentiated effects throughout wage distribution authors analyse the… read more here.
Keywords: impact minimum; increase; minimum wage; wage ... See more keywords
A distributional analysis of the gender wage gap among technical degree and diploma holders in urban India
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102322
Abstract: Abstract Using Indian employment data obtained from the National Sample Survey, 2011−12, we investigate whether, in urban India, there is a wage gap between men and women workers with similar technical education (degrees or diplomas)… read more here.
Keywords: gender; urban india; wage; holders urban ... See more keywords
Gender wage gap and firm market power: evidence from Chile
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2021.1985070
Abstract: The main aim of this work is to explain the Chilean gender wage gap using a dynamic monopsony model to estimate the labor supply elasticities at the firm level. Our results suggest that the elasticities… read more here.
Keywords: gender wage; gender; labor; wage gap ... See more keywords
Trading firms and the gender wage gap: evidence from South Africa1
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DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2019.1677162
Abstract: abstract Firms engaged in international trade account for a large share of South Africa’s output and employment. Therefore, their behaviour has potentially large effects on national outcomes including gender inequality. In this paper, we test… read more here.
Keywords: trading firms; trading; gender wage; wage gap ... See more keywords
The impact of occupational feminization on the gender wage gap and estimates of wage discrimination
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2021.1949429
Abstract: This study assesses the male-female wage gap across occupational categories ranked by gender density using data from the U.S. Current Population Survey. Our empirical findings suggest a consistent ... read more here.
Keywords: occupational feminization; impact occupational; feminization gender; wage ... See more keywords
Does the Black/White Wage Gap Widen During Recessions?
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DOI: 10.1177/0730888420968148
Abstract: Researchers have long documented a significant wage gap between White and Black workers, at least some of which is attributable to discrimination. Drawing on research suggesting that discrimination increases during recessions, we test whether the… read more here.
Keywords: black white; wage; racial wage; discrimination ... See more keywords
The role amenities play in spatial sorting of migrants and their impact on welfare: Evidence from China
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281669
Abstract: From 2005 to 2015, China’s high-skilled labor was increasingly concentrated in cities with high wages and high rents, while a narrowing of the wage gap between high- and low-skilled labor showed an opposite trend to… read more here.
Keywords: welfare; impact welfare; labor; low skilled ... See more keywords